A Novato, Calif., woman thought she was doing the right thing by picking up an apparently lost iPhone 4 in her shopping cart, taking it to her son’s home and calling the phone’s owner to tell her she could collect the handset.
The real world consequences of an APT hack
Security researcher Brian Krebs has detailed an interesting analysis of how an APT attack ended up with Chinese hackers effectively running amok on a hedge fund’s IT resource – and how the company dealt with the problem.
Hackers disrupted US government satellites, says report
Hackers, perhaps from China, interfered with two US government satellites during 2007 and 2008 by penetrating a ground station in Norway, according to a report being issued by a congressional commission next month.
TDL4 botnet may be available for rent
ESET’s senior research fellow David Harley says that, while his team of researchers have been tracking the TDL4 botnet for some time, they have noticed a new phase in its evolution.
Solera research director spots a hybrid spear phishing attack
Andrew Brandt, The newly-installed director of threat research with Solera Networks, has been analyzing what appears to be a hybrid spear phishing attack against a colleague and revealed the effort that goes into making these targeted attack emails loo…
Jericho Forum talks about identity security strategies
At the RSA Europe event earlier this month, Infosecurity got a chance to catch up with Paul Simmonds, a board member of the Jericho Forum.
Application vulnerability ranked as key threat by 72% of IT security professionals
Research just released by (ISC)² claims to show that application vulnerability was ranked as the number one threat by more than 72% of IT security professionals.
Duqu should act as an alarm for IT security professionals
Responding to Symantec – and McAfee’s – reports last week about the ‘Son of Stuxnet’ worm appearing and harvesting information from industrial control systems, Venafi says the Duqu malware is definitely a major security threat.
Barnaby Jack hacks diabetes insulin pump live at Hacker Halted
At the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, Florida, McAfee research architect, Barnaby Jack, demonstrated how to hack into an insulin pump live in his presentation titled ‘Life threatening vulnerabilities’.
JBoss worm exploiting old bug to infect unpatched servers
Old bugs, it seems, do not die – nor do they fade away – as Dennis Fisher, editor of Kaspersky Lab’s ThreatPost newswire says that there is a new worm in the wild that is compromising servers running older versions of the JBoss Application Server and t…